Red squirrel’s speed, hypervigilance and agility help them evade predators such as weasels, pine martens, raptors and fishers ...

DRIVING HOME from work one recent late afternoon on my country road commute, a small dark critter made the mad dash across the road a few dozen yards ahead of my truck. It was well on the other side ...

It was about five springs ago when a woman who lived near Cass City called me and asked if I knew anyone local who could get rid of nuisance animals. Her husband had passed away and she had decided to ...

I started seeing them there a few weeks ago, not recalling them near my cabin feeders before. When they showed up, I also noted that the most common mammal to invade the feeder seemed absent. These ...

The annual interagency survey of the endangered Mount Graham red squirrel in the Pinaleño Mountains of southeastern Arizona found the latest p ...

About a month ago, a hiker at Sand Ridge Nature Center in South Holland spotted a small creature with reddish brown fur scurrying up the trunk of a long-needled pine tree. “At first we thought it ...

Wildlife agencies counted 232 squirrels on Mount Graham, about the same as a year ago, which is good news during a drought.

Grey squirrels are an invasive, non-native species introduced from North America to sites in Great Britain and Ireland between 1876 to 1929. They out-compete the native red squirrels and multiply ...

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An endemic subspecies of squirrel that has been in peril for more than half a century is showing signs of population growth in its southeastern Arizona habitat, likely due to a new survey method. The ...

The Mount Graham red squirrel population in Arizona has risen more than expected, according to the Arizona Department of Game and Fish. The latest survey shows an increase of about 89 squirrels since ...